OOTA Newsletter December 9th, 2014
WRITING AT THE CENTRE Classes f0r 2015 These are the start dates for Poetry and Prose classes for 2015 at the Fremantle Arts Centre. Please put them in your diary, we hope to see you back in 2015. Regards, your tutors Shane McCauley & Helen Hagemann Friday, 16th January: 1pm– Poetry, followed by Friday, 30th January: 1pm– Poetry Friday, 6th February: 1pm - Prose Ω MEMBERS ACHIEVEMENTS
CONGRATULATIONS TO: Sue Clennell Her 10 minute play ‘The Ice Age’ has been accepted to be performed in Sydney’s Short & Sweet Festival 2015. Sue. CONGRATULATIONS TO: All OOTA writers who have achieved publication throughout 2014 or to those who have won prizes in competitions; our members names keep popping up in Regime, Westerly, Uneven Floor, Cordite Poetry Review and elsewhere. Such dedication! Well done! This is where I take the opportunity to say goodbye as your newsletter editor, it has been an enjoyable experience and I certainly liked your comments in the choice of poetry each week. 2015 will see this newsletter and events under new management. It is always healthy to have new people with fresh ideas that will take OOTA long into the future. Regards, Helen Hagemann The State Library of Western Australia has granted a copyright licence to include OOTA’s website in the PANDORA Archive. As agreed this licence permits the Library to copy our publication into the Archive and to retain that copy and provide online public access to it in perpetuity. The publication is now publicly available in the PANDORA Archive at http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc135965
Uneven Floor, is looking for readers, social media supporters, and well written poems with soul. Previously published poems are more than welcome. Read it at unevenfloorpoetry.blogspot.com, and facebook.com/unevenfloor
OOTA wishes members a Very Happy Christmas and a Safe & Healthy New Year CHRISTMAS PARTY 12th December @ 12.30pm under the marquee in the grounds of the Fremantle Arts Centre. Food, wine, raffle and readings, also members are asked to kindly bring a plate. OOTA will have wine and orange juice. All welcome!
Peter Porter Poetry Prize The Porter Prize is one of Australia’s most lucrative and respected awards for poetry. Poems must not exceed 75 lines and must be written in English. First Prize: $5000. Deadline: 15 December 2014 www.australianbookreview.com.au The Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize Poetry. Run in conjunction with The Moth magazine, there are four cash prizes for a singleunpublished poem – €10,000 for the overall winner and three runner-up prizes of €1,000. Closing date: 31st December 2014 http://www.themothmagazine.com/ Poets' Corner Seeks Submissions UWA's online arts journal, Trove, would like to invite writing members of the public to send in their work. Unlike with other work published by Trove, affiliation with an institution of higher education is not a prerequisite. For details, http://www.trove.arts.uwa.edu.au/poetscorner
Griffith REVIEW’s The Novella Project III Competition
Poetica’ Among Programs To Go in Cuts to ABC
Submissions are now open for Griffith REVIEW’s The Novella Project III competition. Winning novellas will share in a $25,000 prize pool and will be published in Griffith REVIEW 50: The Novella Project III (November 2015). Open to Australian and New Zealand authors, for original works of fiction that fall between the length of a typical short story and novel. While there is no firm word length requirement, writers are advised that works between 10,000 and 25,000 words are preferable; 35,000 words is the maximum. Entry fee is $50 ($35 for subscribers). It is anticipated that four novellas will be selected for publication, but the judges reserve the right to vary the number selected. The winning novellas will also be published as eSingles in addition to the collected print and digital edition. Submissions close 29 May 2015. For full terms and conditions, please click here.
Crikey reports that ABC Radio National program Poetica is among the Radio National programs to be discontinued as part of the cuts announced by ABC managing director Mark Scott on 24 November. Poetica, which is produced by Mike Ladd, is dedicated to the performance of poetry and ranges freely among contemporary Australian and overseas work as well as drawing on ancient sources and from bi-lingual programs, live readings, studio-based poetry features and on-location recordings. For information about Poetica, click here. To read Crikey's article about the cuts to the ABC, click here.
CALENDAR DECEMBER 15 – Tom Collins Poetry Prize: www.fawwa.org 15 – Peter Porter Poetry Prize : Details 19- Somerset National Poetry Prize: details Somerset 24 – Nature Writing Prize 2014 : Website 31- 2014 Aurealis Awards Calling for Entries: Details here. 2015 Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2015. Closing date is 31 January, 2015. Further details here. 2015 One-Act Play Writing Competition. For details, click here. Entries close 31 January 15. The ESU-Roly Sussex Short Story Award 2015 Submissions accepted from Nov 17 2014-Feb 28 2015. For details, click here.
Ω Prole is a print magazine that publishes high quality, accessible poetry and prose. They aim to challenge, engage and entertain - but never exclude. Details on Website Creatrix 27 is now online. For poetry, go to: http://creatrix.wapoets.net.au/2014/12/creatrix-27-poetry/ For haiku, go to: http://creatrix.wapoets.net.au/2014/12/creatrix-27-haiku-2/ Poetry published in Creatrix is referenced in AusLit http://www.austlit.edu.au/ an authoritative database about Australian literature and storytelling. Check out the site and insert your name in the search field to find your references.
FLASH FICTION Impressions by Girija Tropp In the pouring rain, the boys flounced after the football; a water polo, a geyser of bodies; the umpire with his whistle and the ball in the air more often than not. A woman in a fleecy red jumpsuit bumped him with her umbrella. Sorry, she said as if she'd hurt him badly. His smeary glasses turned the grounds into a daub of paint with kayaks sprinting from side to side. He doesn't usually come to the football--doesn't like the pushing and shoving. But now that his world had shaken, he had to rethink his boundaries. Yesterday, in the middle of packing, he found an empty journal belonging to HER, the woman he'd lived with for a few centuries. She'd left a thumbprint of cinnamon on the last page. He held it to his nose and when he ran out of air, went outside and found a onewinged butterfly. It was perched on the mailbox; a white plastic bucket hung on the tree by a nail. Her parents used to play tip-cat on the football oval when they came visiting. The cat was a stick of wood about a foot long and two inches in diameter around the middle. "Are we in the colonies?" they said, looking at the unmown grass and the Patterson's Curse over the fence line. They were English. He was surprised to find that they smelt of tea. The woman with the umbrella came up and asked if he would like to share a doughnut. So was this it, was she the flavour of the month? The sugar had spread into the papery corners of her mouth and lightened her lipstick. He tried to figure it out because he was willing to suitcase his past, and head somewhere different, for the sake of his kids he had said, and there was the moment he saw the butterfly Poetry d'Amo and thought about the beautiful maimed all in the one breath. Show details Reference: http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue4/fiction_tro pp1.shtml ootawriters@gmail.com http://ootawriters.blogspot.com.au https://www.facebook.com/groups/435245393226549/